Free-to-play

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See also: Members

Free-to-play areas and activities highlighted on the world map. Pay-to-play areas and activities in red. Full resolution image.

Free-to-play, also known as F2P, is the free version of Old School RuneScape where no payment to Jagex is required to play. Players who play the free version of RuneScape are known as "Free players", "F2Pers", or "Non-members". This is in contrast to members, who pay a fee for access to a much larger map and a multitude of skills, items, quests, and activities that are unavailable to free-to-play users. Free-to-play users can gain access to membership through in-game purchases of membership bonds.

Free-to-play in Old School RuneScape was released permanently on the 19th of February 2015. Before this, a two-week F2P trial was available for new accounts. Anyone with a valid RuneScape account can access free-to-play servers.

Free-to-play content

Free-to-play in short

While free-to-play accounts have many limitations that members do not, free to play still yields a decent gaming experience for players.

Skills

Free-to-play accounts have access to 15 skills, with a maximum total level of 1485 (1493 in the highscores). Members-only skills do not count towards free-to-play skill level-based requirements.

The skills are:

• Melee skills: Attack, Strength and Defence (and Hitpoints)
• Ranged
• Magic with limited access to standard spells
  • Strike, bolt and elemental blast spells plus Crumble Undead
  • Confuse, Weaken, Curse and Bind spells
  • Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 enchantments (limited to amulets for free-to-play)
  • Home, Varrock, Lumbridge and Falador Teleports
  • Telekinetic Grab
  • Tele Block
  • Bones to Bananas, Low Level Alchemy, High Level Alchemy and Superheat Item
• Prayers are available up to level 45 Mystic Might.
  • The 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US] of the Edgeville Monastery becomes available at level 31.
• Runecraft elemental, mind and body runes
  • Pouches and the Abyss are not available to F2P, but tiaras are.
• Mining and Smithing
  • Access to metals from bronze to rune
• Crafting
  • Pottery: pots, pie dishes and bowls
  • Soft leather items (except for Coif) and hardleather body
  • Silver: holy symbols and tiaras
  • Gold, sapphire, emerald, ruby and diamond rings, necklaces and amulets
• Fishing and Cooking
  • Available fish are: shrimp, anchovies, sardine, herring, trout, salmon, pike, tuna, lobster and swordfish
  • Cooked meat and cooked chicken
  • Redberry, meat and apple pie
  • Plain pizza, meat pizza and anchovy pizza
  • Cake and chocolate cake
  • Wine
• Woodcutting and Firemaking
  • Trees, Oaks, Willows, maples and yew trees

Transportation

Main article: Free-to-play transportation

See also: Closest.../Free-to-play

Since you can't train agility, the only effective way to travel long distances is teleportation. Also avoid wearing armour if you are skilling and not doing combat since that will deplete your run energy. A chronicle is very useful early in the game for fast access to the Champions' Guild just south of Varrock, and also close to a canoe station. A woodcutting axe and 12 woodcutting can be used for travelling along the river Lum in a canoe. 57 woodcutting is needed for the Wilderness locations, including Ferox Enclave and pools of refreshment. You should get 37 magic as soon as possible for access to teleportation spells. Arguably magic is a more useful skill to train since it has a lot of other uses.

Equipment

Main article: Worn Equipment

Although there are a great quantity of items unavailable to free players, they can still use most melee equipment up to rune armour (40 attack and defence), including god-affiliated armours. Likewise players can use ranged equipment up to green dragonhide armour (40 ranged and defence) and maple shortbows. Magic equipment is very limited but includes wizard robes and hats. Prayer gear include Monk's robes and the Holy symbol. The best overall amulet is the amulet of power, and the only useful ring is the ring of forging. The equipment with the highest bonuses for each combat-style is listed on this page.

Melee equipment:

• Basic weapons and armour made of bronze, iron, steel, black, mithril, adamant and rune, but some specifics like metal gloves, halberds and metal boots are not included.
• Additional items include hill giant club and shaman mask.

Ranged equipment:

• Ranging gear includes leather armour, studded leather armour and green dragonhide.
• Normal, oak, willow and maple bows are available with ammunition up to adamant arrows.
• Crossbows and phoenix crossbows can be used with normal bronze bolts.

Magic equipment:

• Magic armour is limited to blue and black wizard robes and Zamorak monk robes, and staves are limited to the four elemental staves, Magic staff, basic staff, and Skull sceptre.

Prayer equipment:

• Prayer items include: Holy symbol, Monk's robes, Priest gown and Shade robes

Potions

The only potions available in free-to-play are energy potion, antipoison, and strength potion, all obtainable from the Grand Exchange or the Apothecary. Strength potions are an economic way to train melee combat stats, so it's recommended to use them.

Food

Foods are consumables that restore Hitpoints. The highest healing food in a single bite is a swordfish at 14, the highest healing per inventory slot is an anchovy pizza at 18, 9 Hitpoints in 2 bites. There are sometimes better foods in terms of price per healing, so be sure to check the food page.

Monsters

Main article: Bestiary/F2P

There are relatively few monsters in free-to-play, partly due to there being only seven dungeons in the free-to-play map. The dungeons are:

• Asgarnia Ice Dungeon (except the Skeletal Wyvern area)
• Crandor and Karamja Dungeon
• Dwarven mine
• Edgeville Dungeon (except the section that is in the Wilderness)
• Stronghold of Security
• Varrock Sewers
• Corsair Cove Dungeon

Some monsters have restricted drop tables in F2P, and not all areas contain all of the monsters found in P2P servers.

The highest level free-to-play monsters are Evil Chicken and shades. There are 2 bosses with broadcast loot and kill counters, the first being Obor, who can be killed in Edgeville Dungeon after having retrieved the key to his lair. The second being Bryophyta, who can be found in her lair in the Varrock Sewers after the player had obtained a mossy key from a moss giant. Other notable higher level monsters include ankous, lesser demons, greater demons, ogress shamans, ogress warriors, and the quest boss, Elvarg.

Quests

Main article: Free-to-play Quests

There are 21 free-to-play quests with a total of 43 available quest points. With 32 quest points, the Champions' Guild becomes available, along with the ability to start the Dragon Slayer I quest.

Minigames

Free players have access to the Duel Arena and Clan Wars, and the more recently added Last Man Standing, Treasure Trails and Castle Wars.

Restrictions for newly created characters

An Update added several restrictions to newly created Free-to-play characters.

Newly created characters cannot:

• Drop items for other players to pick up. They can still pick up items dropped by others.
• Give away items in a trade. They can still receive items.
• Log in to PvP worlds.
• Create Sell offers for commonly botted items on the Grand Exchange.
• Add items to the Party Chest in the Party Room in Falador.
• Stake in the Duel Arena.

Additionally, if a newly created character is killed by another player, the amount of noted items, the other player receives as loot, are capped at 20 notes per item. These Restrictions can be removed by meeting the following requirements:

• Playing over 20 hours.
• Earning 10 quest points.
• Reaching a total level of 100.

Purchasing membership will remove all restrictions as well.

Other

Limited Bank Size

Free players are limited to 400 bank spaces in which to store items, with up to 416 after PIN (adds eight additional bank spaces) and authenticator setup (adds eight additional bank spaces).

Grand Exchange Offer Slot Limitation

Free players are limited to 3 Grand Exchange offer slots.

Membership Bonds

Old school bonds can be purchased with real-world cash or with in-game coins, and can be redeemed in-game for membership playtime. It is possible to make enough money in-game to play membership content without having to pay any real-world money.

Comparison to regular Runescape F2P areas in the past

The current F2P accessible areas on the surface of OSRS currently closely resemble that of the early to mid era of Runescape HD, with some added content that never existed in the orignal RuneScape game.

Since its inception, areas such as the Corsair Cove have been added. The Edgeville smelting furnace and Castle Wars have also been made F2P.

Treasure Trails

• All beginner clues are available to be done by F2P players. All beginner clues rewards are thus available to F2P players.

Treasure Trail rewards available for F2P players to buy through trading or the Grand Exchange (but can only be obtained through Treasure Trails in P2P):

• Easy clues: bronze trimmed armour set, bronze gold-trimmed armour set, iron trimmed armour set, iron gold-trimmed armour set, black trimmed armour set, black gold-trimmed armour set, blue trimmed wizard robe set, blue gold-trimmed wizard robe set, black trimmed wizard robe set, black gold-trimmed wizard robe set, trimmed studded leather body, trimmed studded leather chaps, gold-trimmed studded leather body, gold-trimmed studded leather chaps, gold-trimmed leather body, gold-trimmed leather chaps, black heraldic armour h1 to h5 (helms, platebodies, shields), amulet of magic (t), amulet of power (t), ham joint, black pickaxe, team cape i, team cape x, team cape zero, wooden shield (g), golden chef's hat, golden apron, Monk's robe top (g), Monk's robe (g)
• Medium clues: mithril trimmed armour set, mithril gold-trimmed armour set, adamant trimmed armour set, adamant gold-trimmed armour set, Green d'hide body (t), Green d'hide chaps (t), Green d'hide body (g), Green d'hide chaps (g), adamant heraldic armour h1 to h5 (helms, platebodies, shields), Wolf cloak, Strength amulet (t)
• Hard clues: rune trimmed armour set, rune gold-trimmed armour set, Guthix rune armour set, Saradomin rune armour set, Zamorak rune armour set, Ancient rune armour set, Bandos rune armour set, Armadyl rune armour set, gilded full helm, gilded platebody, gilded platelegs, gilded kiteshield, gilded med helm, gilded chainbody, Gilded sq shield, gilded plateskirt, Gilded d'hide body, Gilded d'hide chaps, Gilded d'hide vambraces, Gilded 2h sword, gilded axe, gilded scimitar, gilded spade, gilded pickaxe, rune heraldic armour h1 to h5 (helms, platebodies, shields), Rune scimitar ornament kit (guthix), Rune scimitar ornament kit (saradomin), Rune scimitar ornament kit (zamorak)
• Elite clues: ring of nature, all gilded items mentioned in hard clues (gilded full helm, gilded platebody, gilded platelegs, gilded kiteshield, gilded med helm, gilded chainbody, Gilded sq shield, gilded plateskirt, Gilded d'hide body, Gilded d'hide chaps, Gilded d'hide vambraces, Gilded 2h sword, gilded axe, gilded scimitar, gilded spade, gilded pickaxe)
• Master clues: ring of coins, Rune scimitar ornament kit (guthix), Rune scimitar ornament kit (saradomin), Rune scimitar ornament kit (zamorak), all gilded items mentioned in hard clues (gilded full helm, gilded platebody, gilded platelegs, gilded kiteshield, gilded med helm, gilded chainbody, Gilded sq shield, gilded plateskirt, Gilded d'hide body, Gilded d'hide chaps, Gilded d'hide vambraces, Gilded 2h sword, gilded axe, gilded scimitar, gilded spade, gilded pickaxe)

Free-to-play servers

Main article: Server

There are 66 free-to-play servers located in United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. The free-to-play player-versus-player world is switched between world 371 (UK) and 417 (US) every 2 weeks. Sixteen of the servers are themed, nine of which have total level restriction.

List of Worlds
World	Location	Members	Activity
301	United States		Trade - Free
308	United Kingdom		Wilderness PK - free style
316	United Kingdom		Wilderness PK - free style
326	United Kingdom		LMS Casual
335	Germany
371	United Kingdom		PvP World - Free (Period B)
372	United Kingdom		750 skill total
379	United Kingdom
380	United Kingdom
381	United Kingdom		500 skill total
382	United Kingdom
383	Germany		Castle Wars - Free
384	Germany
385	United States		750 skill total
393	United States
394	United States
397	Germany
398	Germany
399	Germany
413	Germany		500 skill total
414	Germany		750 skill total
417	United States		PvP World - Free (Period A)
418	United States
419	United States		500 skill total
424	Australia
425	Australia
426	Australia
427	Australia		500 skill total
430	United States
431	United States
432	United States		750 skill total
433	United States
434	United States
435	United States
436	United States
437	United States
438	United States
439	United States
440	United States
451	Germany
452	Germany
453	Germany
454	Germany
455	Germany
456	Germany
457	Germany
458	Germany
459	Germany
468	United States		500 skill total
469	United States
470	United States
471	United States
472	United States
473	United States
474	United States
475	United States
476	United States
483	United States
497	United Kingdom
498	United Kingdom
499	United Kingdom
500	United Kingdom
501	United Kingdom
502	United Kingdom
503	United Kingdom
504	United Kingdom
530	Australia		750 skill total

Changes

Date	Changes
2 April 2020	Several restrictions were added for newly created Free-to-play characters.
5 March 2015 (update)	Due to an influx of F2P players, 3 members worlds (301, 326 and 335) have been converted to F2P. These worlds will be changed back next week after setting up additional F2P worlds.

See also

• F2P Ironman Guide